In 1982 Wilczek, who by his second article that year knew of the earlier articles, published his own, independent prediction [1]}, [2]}. His systematic investigation of fractional quantum numbers suggested fractional-spin particles in two dimensions. He modeled this with charged particles bound to units of magnetic flux orthogonal to the surface confining the particles – like miniature “Aharonov-Bohm solenoids” with net charge. Wave functions describing such particle/flux tube composites pick up the intermediate phase \(\exp {i\theta }\)  in a single counterclockwise exchange. His name “anyons” expresses that \(\theta \)  can take “any” value between 0 and \(2\pi \) .
